Re: Monitor lpr printer on Windows from Mainframe

2009-11-25 Thread Gilbert C Cardenas
arshall Subject: Re: Monitor lpr printer on Windows from Mainframe >We use VPS to route print from the mainframe to the windows server >and when the server goes down for maintenance etc, the vps printer >goes into an error status cause it can't communicate with the printer. >I ca

Re: Monitor lpr printer on Windows from Mainframe

2009-11-25 Thread Gilbert Cardenas
Thanks Linda and Jim, I have asked the VPS admin to take a look at exit08. We are on VPS V2 R10 and I also saw a note in the manual that stated: The printer keyword ERTABMEM and corresponding error table can replace similar functions performed by VPS User Exit 08. So he is going to check this

Re: Monitor lpr printer on Windows from Mainframe

2009-11-25 Thread Jim Marshall
>We use VPS to route print from the mainframe to the windows server >and when the server goes down for maintenance etc, the vps printer >goes into an error status cause it can't communicate with the printer. >I can't rely on the network folks to communicate what they are doing to >me so I really ne

Re: Monitor lpr printer on Windows from Mainframe

2009-11-24 Thread Linda Mooney
t from the vendor. HTH, Linda Mooney - Original Message - From: "Gilbert Cardenas" To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:02:53 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: Monitor lpr printer on Windows from Mainframe We don't have SA or

Re: Monitor lpr printer on Windows from Mainframe

2009-11-24 Thread Gilbert Cardenas
We don't have SA or DRS/TCPIP but if there is a VPS exit that can do this automatically then I will definitely let the VPS administrator look into this to see if we can use this instead. Thanks for all the suggestions, Gil. On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:45:28 -0500, David Andrews wrote: >On Tue, 2

Re: Monitor lpr printer on Windows from Mainframe

2009-11-24 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 11:09 -0500, Gilbert Cardenas wrote: > We use VPS to route print from the mainframe to the windows server > and when the server goes down for maintenance etc, the vps printer > goes into an error status cause it can't communicate with the printer. > I can't rely on the netwo

Re: Monitor lpr printer on Windows from Mainframe

2009-11-24 Thread Barkow, Eileen
Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gilbert Cardenas Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Monitor lpr printer on Windows from Mainframe I have the need to monitor the status of an lpr printer running on a windows server from the

Re: Monitor lpr printer on Windows from Mainframe

2009-11-24 Thread Roberto Halais
Maybe writing out a status record to a sequential file on the mainframe everytime you poll the printer. Keep printer-id, date, time, return code , etc in that record. Then make a ISPF appl to access those records and make it viewable. On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Gilbert Cardenas < gilbertcar

Monitor lpr printer on Windows from Mainframe

2009-11-24 Thread Gilbert Cardenas
I have the need to monitor the status of an lpr printer running on a windows server from the mainframe. We use VPS to route print from the mainframe to the windows server and when the server goes down for maintenance etc, the vps printer goes into an error status cause it can't communicate wi